Phonophani

b. Espen Sommer Eide, 1972, Oslo, Norway. ‘The potential designer’, says Norwegian digital professional Phonophani, ‘will be considered a hereditary engineer.’ Phonophani released his debut UK album in 2001, exactly the same yr that fertility professionals Panayiotis Zavos and Severino Antinori’s predicted the world’s 1st cloned baby will be created. Intrigued by the options of gene manipulation, Phonophani correlates the aversion folks have towards hereditary engineering using the distaste with which many look at sample-based music. ‘Sampling is definitely a kind of gene manipulation where you arrange and re-arrange audio parts from your playing as well as the functions of others to generate new microorganisms of audio’, asserts the musician who, notably, keeps a Masters Level in Beliefs. For Phonophani, the appropriation of examples as well as the camouflaging of unique sources can be an creative act alone. Phonophani’s stated purpose in creating his extremely evocative items in the present day ambient style, is usually to be ‘violently psychological’ in his function also to ‘overshadow the artificial nature from the constructions’. His self-titled debut premiered from the Biophon label, operate by Biosphere’s Geir Jenssen. Sommer Eide also information, alongside Dag-Are Haugan, as you 1 / 2 of Alog.